Miss Fuchs' Weekly Updates

Students had a fabulous time celebrating the children's author, Dr. Seuss, today! They rotated to different rooms for a read aloud and educational activity. They read the Lorax and identified ways to help our earth then made a Lorax Planter Pot! In Ms. McGinn's classroom the students read the story Wacky Wednesday and identified "wacky" things through out the story, then created their own version of a "Wacky Wednesday" story. In each of the math classes, students read the story One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and did some Goldfish Graphing! Overall, it was an awesome day to be an FSA student. :)

A big thank you to all our parent volunteers! Check out homeroom for pictures of our exciting day!!

Friday, March 9-Teacher Work Day-No School

Sunday, March 11- Day light savings time

Wednesday, March 14- Pi Day - Pizza order information below!

Friday, March 16- Chattahoochee Nature Center Field Trip!

Saturday, March 17- Breakfast of Champions, 8:00am

Friday, March 23- Donuts with Dad

Monday, April 2 - Friday, April 6: Spring Break

Sunday, April 22- International Cultural cafe 5.00-7.00 pm

• Homework Packet #21
• Math Homework Packet #21
• Chattahoochee Nature Center Field Trip Permission Form

1stgraders will travel to the Chattahoochee Nature Center on Friday, January 16th for our next field trip.

Important items to remember for this trip:

• Students should wear their RED uniform polo
• Students should wear comfortable bottoms and shoes (we will be walking a lot!)
• Students should pack a completely disposable sack lunch on this day - we will have a picnic lunch before returning to FSA
• We will leave around 8:45am and return at 2:00pm

Field Trip Forms were sent home today in your child's take home folder, and they should be returned by Friday, March 9th!

Students are invited by the MSO to order Pizza for their lunch on Pi Day - March 14th!

If you are interested... please send back the completed pizza order form and cash with your child by Tuesday, March 6th.

*Pizza is Kosher and Gluten Free is available

If students order pizza - please also send snacks with them to have at lunch so they are not too hungry for the remainder of the day :)

FSA’s annual International Cultural Cafe will be held on April 22, 2018 from 4-7pm! We take pride in the cultural diversity represented in our school, and our International Cultural Cafe is a great way to share and celebrate our various cultural traditions. There are several ways that you can help and engage this year. Please click the link below to let us know how you would like to be included. Once we receive your google form, we will reach out to you with additional details.

https://goo.gl/forms/som4slu7709G6fjs2

Please contact Kavitha Joseph at fsaculturalcafe@gmail.com with any questions.

The Mustang Support Organization is very excited to let you know that they are planning to host our first "Breakfast of Champions" Family Event and Fundraiser! BUT, THEY NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT A HUGE SUCCESS! This event will be a family-friendly waffle breakfast with a basket raffle to raise funds for our amazing Mustang Athletic Teams. Since we are still a young school and out athletic program is just getting off the ground, the MSO Board has offered to help Coach Randall get a good head start in purchasing the equipment and materials he needs! Baskets will be available for viewing in the lobby every morning until the Breakfast of Champions on March 17th! More details about tickets for the breakfast and tickets for the basket raffle will be sent out in the next few days!

Please contact the MSO with any questions that you may have.

Hi Chess Players,

It is that time of the year when we need all tournament chess players to come out and play for Fulton Science Academy at the State Chess Team Qualifiers! The top teams from the Qualifier events will move on to the championship, which is on March 25, 2018 (more details).

This year, the Qualifier level has been split into two events to reduce the size of the tournament (last year was one huge tournament). The Qualifier tournaments are unrated and do not require USCF membership.

March 3, 2018

Students in K-3 section and 6-8 section should play this Qualifier.

Click here for more details.

March 10, 2018

Students in K-1 section and K-5 section should play this Qualifier.

Click here for more details.

In general, students should have played at least one tournament prior to these Qualifiers. Students have more fun if they are not worried about things like how to use the chess clock, etc. The exception to this is the K-1 level. As long as kids know how to play chess and are solid with all the rules, it would be ok for a child new to tournaments to play in the K-1 section.

Please register your child by clicking the links provided above. You will be given a choice to register as an Individual or a Team. Please register as an Individual (you will be put on the team list with your other teammates by GCA after you register).

If anyone has any questions about the Section their child belongs in or any other questions, please email Karen@atlchessclub.com

Dads, mark your calendars! On Friday, March 23 from 8:00-8:30AM, first grade will be having a Donuts with Dad celebration. Because Father's Day is celebrated in the summer months, we want to make sure we get a time to honor our dads. We will provide breakfast foods and drinks. Students will also have a couple of fun treats that they have made just for you! It will be a special time to sit with your child and hear from them how much you mean to them!

Moms, go ahead and mark your calendars for Friday, April 20 from 8:00-8:30AM! Your special day will be next!

Elementary is planning on implementing a Career Day in April. We would love to have about 7 presenters come to the classrooms to share their skills with our kids. If you are interested in doing a presentation, please let myself, or Mrs. Ivarie know. We are looking for an interactive and engaging presentation. Models, pictures, things the students can touch or manipulate are welcome, (and encouraged!) The projected date is April 13, 2018. If you are interested, please send a brief overview of your career and an idea of what you’d be presenting to the classes. If you have a preferred grade level that you wish to work with, please include that information.

If you are looking for reinforcement of skills we are learning in class or extra practice for your first grade student - please consider using Study Island resource at home this year. This is a great resource we will be using this year where students can practice Math and Reading/Language Arts skills at home. This will help your child feel more confident during our MAP assessments this year. It is designed to help them practice the areas they are having difficulty with. Your child's username and password is the same as your FSA Connect login. If you need this information, please send me an email.

You can access the website at http://www.studyisland.com/

Reading/Language Arts: We will finish up our last form of poetry, color poems, and then put together our poetry portfolio and have an in-class "poetry slam"! We will continue to work on themes in a story, identify adjectives, use vowel digraph ue, ew, ui, and work on our fluency!

Spelling Words: backpack, outside, baseball, herself, flashlight, bluebird, lunchbox, suitcase, inside, brainstorm, picture, remember, room, stood, thought

Science: Students will investigate light and sound through 5 different hands-on explorations! A light and sound QR code research, a light experiment with translucent, transparent, and opaque material, forming rainbows with prisms, making sound with different materials, and making their own pan flute!

First Grade Teacher

Email: kfuchs@fultonscienceacademy.org
Website: Fultonscienceacademy.org
Location: 3035 Fanfare Way, Alpharetta Georgia 30009
Phone: (678) 366-2555